Texas Senate Approves Handguns On Campus Amendment

Surely there will be blood in the streets and of course no true progressive would approve of this

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/05/senate-approves-handguns-on-ca.html#

Stymied in his previous efforts to pass a handguns-on-campus bill in the Senate, Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, was successful on his fourth try Monday as senators agreed to add the proposal to a state fiscal matters bill that was expected to win approval. The door was opened for Wentworth's handgun measure when senators added another languishing bill on higher education as an amentment to the fiscal matters legislation. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst ruled that the handgun proposal also could be added as an amendment because the fiscal matters bill relates to higher education in Texas.

The proposal, generally opposed by higher education officials across the state, would allow Texans with a concealed handgun license to carry a gun into any buildings on a college campus, including classrooms. It would also allow students with a license to keep a handgun in their dormitories, although college officials would be allowed to restrict where it could be stored. The vote to add Wentworth's amendment was 21-10, with all the no votes cast by Democrats. House members have not yet voted on similar legislation.

I don't buy the idea that one person can label someone a true progressive, or a true American or whatever.

:thumbsup:

instead of the drive by snark.

FWIW I live in a state where concealed carry is allowed by law on college campuses and we don't seem to have blood in the dorms

but I would not like to be teaching in a class with guns. I never felt personally threatened by a student, but once a husband attacked his wife, a student in a friend's classroom. Fortunately, the man did not have a gun. I think it's just a matter of time until a quarrel between two young people ends in gunfire in a classroom with bullets injuring other students.

Since 1876 we're still waiting

I'd call that sufficient empirical evidence.

I should send them a whole case of Vaseline